Washington, Dec. 11: Media networks in the United States spent over three million dollars more covering Barack Obama’s campaign than they did on his rival John McCain.

According to Politico, media outlets paid 8.5 million dollars to fly Air Obama compared to 5.8 million dollars to ride McCain’s Straight Talk Express during this year’s general election, a difference of 32 percent.

Washington - President-elect Barack Obama is expected to select Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to be his energy secretary, US media reported Thursday.

Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He has since focused on climate change for several years, saying last year that the best scientist have realized that the world is facing a "crisis situation."

Washington, Dec. 11 : US President-elect Barack Obama has confirmed that he would take oath of office using his middle name Hussein and added that he planned to set the tone for his future relations with the Muslim world with a major speech in a Muslim capital early in his presidency.

"I think we''ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America''s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular," Obama told the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

Obama said that in choosing to use his middle name he would merely be following custom.

Springfield (Illinois, US)/Washington, Dec. 11 : Jesse Jackson Junior, the son of the well known civil rights campaigner, Jesse Jackson Senior, has denied that he attempted to buy President-elect Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat from Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Jackson has emerged as the mysterious "Candidate 5" being implicated for attempting to purchase the seat

Washington - President-elect Barack Obama called on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign Wednesday following his arrest on corruption charges.

"The president-elect agrees ... that under the current circumstances it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve the people of Illinois," Robert Gibbs, Obama's spokesman, said, according to the Washington Post.

Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday on multiple corruption charges, including that he sought bribes and political favours from those being considered to take Obama's vacated Senate seat.

New York, Dec. 10 : People say that what one chooses to drive says a lot about their personality and character, and U. S. presidents are no exception.

While most are routinely transported in limousines, many owned, and were passionate about, personal cars.

Hagerty Insurance, which specializes in covering classic and collectible cars, has compiled a list of the most interesting cars driven by American presidents since 1909, reports the New York Daily News.